Heck, SCOTUS handed down a nice slap to an overreaching prosecutor, too. A guy was convicted of "using" a gun in a transaction involving him trying to buy the gun for drugs; this got him an extra 5 years. 'Justice Souter bluntly wrote, "The government's position that Watson 'used' the pistol ... by receiving it for narcotics lacks authority in either precedent or regular English."'

The case was Watson v. United States, the link is http://wap.foxnews.proteus.com/index.php?page=content&contentId=1947369&contentPage=11

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